• Heritage Elementary School School Community Council

    Minutes- Wednesday, November 13, 2024

     

    1. Welcome to Heritage Elementary School Community Council.

      1. Introductions of attendees:

    Justin Maughan

    Brian Heinsohn

    Julie Clark

    Maria Jones

    Jenni Theophilou

    Ysenia Garcia

    Tom Dickinson

    Shalayne Merrill

    Lance Robins

    Mike Merrill

    Sara Anderson

    Kendal Welker

    Angela Sorenson

    Nate Laurisen

    1. Review SCC Minutes from last month (October).

    2. Approval of minutes last meetings minutes from October.

    Motion to approve 1st ____Julie Clark_______

    Motion to approve 2nd ____Sara Anderson________

    1. Big Thank You to our PTA for sponsoring, organizing and hosting Safety Week at Heritage.

      1. Everything was a success! Loved having it on the week of Halloween.

    2. Safe School Information Angela Sorenson

      1. Safe Routes to School 

        1. Reviewed map of safe routes over school boundaries. Area in blue was indicated as walk/parent transport to school area. Reviewed safe routes map, government map submitted to UDOT. There are some courtesy bus stops within the “walk” area based on the safety of how to get to school. The transit authority is only allowed to have a certain number of courtesy stops within the walk area. Theses will remain on Hwy 165 and Hwy 89. Some safe routes don’t have to be shown since they are covered by Buses. Changes can be made to the safe routes, it just shows parents and students the safest routes to get to school. Safe routes don’t have to include undeveloped subdivisions. The school community council can suggest changes to the safe routes.

          Questions about expectations of who needs to be in charge of telling students about changes to safe routes.

          Suggestion to send a screenshot of the map to parents via email.

          Suggestion was made to have an evaluation meeting of safe routes in September or earlier to make sure everything is in a good place before safety week.

          Before we make any changes the city should do some careful research to make sure the changes are sustainable and supportable.

          Nibley city is working on completing the sidewalk on the south end of 3200 S. On 3200 S just east of 1200 W was a request for a funeral home. Also talks about a subdivision between 1200 W and 900 W. Lots of construction in the neighborhoods surrounding the school expected.

          City is testing some traffic calming elements including bulb outs at cross walks and placards in the middle of the crosswalk: testing to see what is most effective. They will collect baseline data first, then collect treatment data to compare the two.

          Potential to move the school zone from 800 W to right in front of the school. This change will be considered as they finish the middle school to coordinate and make sure it is moved to the right place. 


    Updates on construction are typically shared on the Nibley city website and social media. Encourage parents to follow Nibley city on Facebook and/or Instagram. Make sure that information is in Spanish and English.

    The Stonebridge area was built with pedestrians in mind. There are requests to remove the traffic calming devices from that neighborhood. Drivers that don’t live on the road are frustrated by the changes.

    Nibley is unique that there are four schools, there really has to be consideration for safety of school age children.

    Nibley City would like feedback on how the road is, consider the road from a driver’s perspective and from a pedestrian’s perspective and send Nibley City feedback.

    The city was very particular in the construction of 1200 W, every detail was intentional.

    There is a Nibley City council meeting tomorrow, Nov 14.


    The city will send Kendal the presentation about the issue and she will pass it along to the council. They will do some research on safe routes moving forward.

    The construction site has their project manager acting as a crossing guard to help the kids be safe on the way to and from school. 

    1. Kids Empowered/Safe Routes Assembly done in October 

    2. Safe Schools/PBIS 

    1. Accelerated Reading Information (Lindsey Johnson)

      We’re up and running for kids to take quizzes. Kids can only take the quiz once, but can take it at home.  Work with teachers if there are issues with the tests. The link is on the school website, the kids were all shown how to find it.
      For Students>Accelerated Reader
      Library Page>Accelerated Reader
      Classroom pages>Accelerated Reader
      They need to be signed in on Google in their student account to log in and take quizzes.

      Suggestion made to send instructions home to parents in English and Spanish.
      Follow the link from the school and the code to enter should be pre-filled.

     

    1. RISE Testing Data from prior year Shalayne Merrill.

      School goals and funding from School Community Council page of website. On testing Heritage scored higher than the district and state on almost all subjects. Scores can be accessed through website.

      1. Area we need to improve the most (i.e. Math, Science, ELA)

      2. Determine which academic area we would like to improve.

        Our focus will be on the lowest testing areas, lower grades ELA.

    2. Needs/wants for the upcoming year.

      1. Para-Professionals

        1. Reading Aides, Amity Interns, Classroom Aides etc.

          There is almost always need for more aides. School Land Trust supplements Tier II.

          Amity Interns would be great to have, but housing is very difficult.

    3. AAPPL Testing for our DLI Spanish students 3-6 grades took place last week.  

      1. Report on how we handled this assessment in our computer lab Shalayne Merrill.

        Testing is ongoing, waiting for sixth grade to finish. We need to be done by the end of the month.

      2. What a Teacher needs to be doing for AAPPL. Maria Jones

    4. School Land Trust spent year to date

      1. Update what we have spent year to date.

    Total Amount for Year: $118,064

    Spent YTD:   $42,234.          

    Budget Balance:     $75,831.

    District goal is no more than 10% carry-over

    1. District sets the due date for spring reports. 

    2. TIER II information by Brian Heinsohn
      Brian utilizes aides for reading intervention. The program is currently fully staffed. There is a lot of growth because retention has been good with the Paras. They’re familiar with the programs which helps effectiveness. CCSD typically scores well with ELA in part because of the Tier II interventions. Tier II has been very successful at helping kids learn to read.

    3. Motion to Close this meeting:

      1. Motion to close 1st ____Sara__________________

      2. Motion to close 2nd _______Ysenia______________

     

    1. Thank you for attending